Psalms — Chapter 13
For the leader. A psalm of David.
How long, O ETERNAL One; will You ignore me forever?How long will You hide Your face from me?
How long will I have cares on my mind,grief in my heart all day?How long will my enemy have the upper hand?
Look at me, answer me, O my ETERNAL God!Restore the luster to my eyes,lest I sleep the sleep of death;
lest my enemy say, “I have overcome him,”my foes exult when I totter.
But I trust in Your faithfulness,my heart will exult in Your deliverance.I will sing to GOD,who has been good to me.
✦ Connected Across Traditions
Impermanence & Letting Go
Dhammapada 20:277
“All conditioned things are impermanent. When one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.”
Tao Te Ching 76
“A man is born gentle and weak. At his death he is hard and stiff. The soft and yielding is the disciple of life.”
Ecclesiastes 3:1-2
“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.”
Bhagavad Gita 2:22
“As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.”
Good vs Evil / Light vs Darkness
Yasna 30:3
“Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action.”
John 1:5
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
Dhammapada 1:1-2
“Mind is the forerunner of all actions. If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows like a shadow.”
Bhagavad Gita 16:21
“There are three gates to self-destructive hell: lust, anger, and greed. Therefore, one must learn to give these up.”